Michael Frayn
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Michael Frayn (born 1939-09-08) is an English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, translator and journalist.
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- To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.
- One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"…The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."
- James Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67.
- If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.
- James Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67.
- It's not the despair, Laura, I can stand the despair. It's the hope.
- Clockwise (1986), cited from Malcolm Page File on Frayn (London: Methuen, 1994) p. 65.
